This study examined relationships between mother-child interactions and children's behaviors in 119 urban African American mothers and their 6 - 7 year old children. Interactions during a cooking task and a follow-up child clean-up task were videotaped. Principal components analyses of behaviors during the cooking task yielded two factors in mothers (Sensitivity and Control), and three in child...

Sentiment and emotional analysis on online collaborative software development forums can be very useful to gain important insights into the behaviors and personalities of the developers. Such information can later on be used to increase productivity of developers by making recommendations on how to behave best in order to get a task accomplished. However, due to the highly technical nature of t...

it study examined the relationship between humor on organizational culture and group cohesion using factor analysis deals. the population of this studies all technical and professional staff, kermanshah university has established who relative advantage of using random sampling of 181 individuals was selected morgan and using questionnaire data collected, amos and software tests. results indicat...

We propose a software architecture that can ease and speed up the development process of controllers for heterogeneous swarm systems. It is inherently modular and allows behaviors to be combined in layers and reused in multiple controllers. This can potentially speedup the development process of controllers since they become much more readable and well structured. We validated the architecture ...

in many applications, ranking of decision making units (dmus) is a problematic technical task procedure to decision makers in data envelopment analysis (dea), especially when there are extremely efficient dmus. in such cases, many dea models may usually get the same efficiency score for different dmus. hence, there is a growing interest in ranking techniques yet. the purpose of this paper is ra...

patients and methods subjects of this study include teaching hospitals in mashhad, affiliated with mashhad university of medical sciences and the tool used in gathering the data was a questionnaire, completed based on the information provided by the proceedings of the meetings held by the ethics committees. also, for the purpose of gathering the suggestions, specifically on the improvement of t...

politeness is a phenomenon which is common to all cultures. each culture has a different perception of what is polite and each language has various devices for expressing politeness. one of the important aspects of politeness which is the central focus of many studies is the polite behaviors of men and women. the focus of this study is on the politeness strategies of males and females from diff...